TY - BOOK AU - TI - Mercy SN - 9780743422444 U1 - F/PIC PY - 1996///] CY - New York PB - Putnam's KW - Fiction KW - Massachusetts KW - Legal stories KW - Domestic fiction N2 - Police chief of a small Massachusetts town, Cameron McDonald makes the toughest arrest of his life when his own cousin Jamie comes to him and confesses outright that he has killed his terminally ill wife out of mercy. Now, a heated murder trial plunges the town into upheaval, and drives a wedge into a contented marriage. Cameron, aiding the prosecution in their case against Jamie, is suddenly at odds with his devoted wife, Allie, seduced by the idea of a man so in love with his wife that he'd grant her all her wishes, even the wish to end her life ER -